Gaston Planté

male, deceased (1889)
electric cars, Rheostatic Machine, dynamic electricity, capacitor, static electricity, battery electric vehicle…lead-acid battery, electric battery, lead-acid cell, lead acid
Gaston Planté was a French physicist who invented the lead acid battery in 1859. The lead acid battery eventually became the first rechargeable e...
Émile Alphonse Faure

Émile Alphonse Faure

male
inventor, sulfuric acid, electrochemistry, lead-acid battery, lead battery, lead oxide
Émile Alphonse Faure designed the modern rechargeable lead battery in 1881. His innovation involved coating the cast lead anodes with a paste of l...

Henri Tudor

male, deceased (2005)
engineer, inventor, lead poisoning, luxembourg, Industrialist, Echternach…lead-acid battery
Henri Owen Tudor was a Luxembourgian engineer, inventor, and industrialist. He developed the first practical lead-acid battery in 1886. Tudor...